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Olive-green watercolour wash diffusing across wet cotton paper

Córdoba · Andalusia · International community

Watercolourthat unites worlds

AAAI is an international cultural platform devoted to watercolour, with Córdoba as its home.

Poster competition 2027The Festival
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Creative principle

Water meets pigment, pigment meets gesture, gesture meets people.

  1. Water
  2. Pigment
  3. Gesture
  4. Artwork
  5. People
  6. Encounter

Watercolour is a craft of time, water and attention. AAAI exists to sustain that conversation and to gather, around a single sheet of paper, people who paint in very different places.

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What AAAI unites

One sheet of paper, many places

  • 01

    Artists

    Watercolourists from different countries and backgrounds sharing craft and outlook.

  • 02

    City

    Córdoba as both stage and subject: light, lime, water and courtyard.

  • 03

    Audience

    Those who look, learn and follow watercolour from outside the studio.

  • 04

    Memory

    What happens stays: works, editions and people recorded permanently.

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Flagship event

V Córdoba International Watercolor Festival 2027

Watercolour painters working in a Córdoba courtyard in afternoon light

The Festival is AAAI's annual meeting point in the city. The programme, venues and dates of the fifth edition will be published here once confirmed.

Córdoba, Spain

Programme in preparation

04

Roots

Córdoba as an open studio

Lime, water, shade and light. The city gives watercolour exactly what watercolour needs: living surfaces, temperature and time.

A brush loaded with green pigment on textured watercolour paper
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Opens 17 August

Competition for the official poster

V Córdoba International Watercolor Festival 2027

An original watercolour with Córdoba as its theme. The winning work becomes the official poster of the fifth edition of the Festival.

Entry period
17 Aug – 13 Sep 2026
Closing
13 Sep 2026, 23:59:59 (Europe/Madrid)
Jury decision
18 Sep 2026
Prize
€1,000 taxes included

Key rules

  • Aged 18 or over, any nationality
  • Original work, minimum 90% watercolour
  • Theme: the city of Córdoba
  • 56 × 76 cm, portrait orientation
  • Digital submission through the official website form: minimum 3 MB, 300 dpi as stated in the rules
  • One active artwork per participant; it may be replaced until the deadline and each replacement creates a new version
  • Prize: €1,000 taxes included and an invitation as Guest Artist to the V Córdoba International Watercolor Festival 2027
See the full open call

Entry form in preparation

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Memory

International community and archive

AAAI brings together watercolourists from different countries around the Festival and its open calls. The public archive of editions, works and artists is being prepared and will be published at stable URLs.

Archive in preparation